Suddenly many movements are going on within me, many things are happening, there is an almost unbearable sense of sprouting, of bursting encasements, of moving kernels, expanding flesh. — Meridel Le Suer, Salute to Spring (1940) It’s easy to refer...

The body is a sacred garment —Martha Graham, Blood Memory (1991) When I was a bodywork therapist, I talked with a client prior to giving her a massage. She looked down at her body and said, “I can’t accept my body the way it is. Look at me.”...